Researchers have found the development of the frontal sinus was affected more by sexual dimorphism than the ancestry of the individual and that it was the interplay between those two factors that produced the most significant variation.
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Find resources related to Forensic anthropology – A special sub-field of physical anthropology (the study of human remains) that involves applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases. When human remains or a suspected burial are found, forensic anthropologists are called upon to gather information from the bones and their recovery context to determine who died, how they died, and how long ago they died. Forensic anthropologists specialize in analyzing hard tissues such as bones.
Forensic anthropology is a particular sub-field of physical anthropology (the study of human remains) that involves applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to medico-legal matters. Forensic anthropologists use physical anthropology techniques to identify human remains that are badly decomposed, burned, skeletal, mutilated, or otherwise unrecognizable, such as airplane crash accidents.
